Definition of excavate in English:

excavate

verb ˈɛkskəveɪtˈɛkskəˌveɪt

[with object]

1Make (a hole or channel) by digging.
挖掘，挖（洞，渠）
the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench
干这事花费最少的方法就是挖一条长长的沟。
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the street was excavated to the proper depth, a thick concrete base was poured.
- Apart from cleaning out existing sites, White Paws also excavated new holes wherever the cover was good and the ground soft.
- Over a number of weeks a trench was excavated in the river bed on each side of the estuary.
- It is common knowledge that when a hole is excavated, and then refilled with soil, settling can occur at the site.
- The massive females drag themselves well up beyond the high-tide mark and excavate a hole with their rear flippers.
- Add to that a bus tour of the quarry where political prisoners excavated limestone and dug themselves a privy, and the beach where those who are now the country's leaders gathered kelp, and the value is beyond question.
- In their natural state wombats excavate large burrows where they will generally spend the day, coming out in the evening to feed.
- Meanwhile, a tunnel is being excavated so that guests won't have to bother themselves crossing the main road to get to the golf course.
- At least two of them have developed blades that allow you to use a tooth bucket for more than excavating a hole or digging a trench.
- It then backed up a bit and repeated the procedure once more, excavating another hole next to the first one, and then one more after that.
- The toad doesn't really need us to make him a home, both the spadefoot and Colorado river toad can excavate burrows almost three feet deep.
- There were no tools found in the churchyard so it is not yet clear how the hole was excavated and officers are not aware of any history of vandalism at St Martin's.
- I settle into a large sandy hole previously excavated by a turtle.
- We excavate a hole, put our tent inside it, and start winter camping for a few days.
- A newly excavated shallow pond has created greater surface water for wetland wildlife.
- The bottom of the garden has been looking literally like a bombsite for some time, while we have been moving the patio and excavating a hole for the bog garden.
- Each of six trenches being excavated simultaneously had its own sieve in operation.
- This had been built several years ago, when the drain tile went in, by excavating a hole and building the brick catch basin in the hole.
- They excavate burrows in soil or use natural rock crevices, or they may use old burrows.
- Cane rats also are good diggers and excavate shallow burrows as shelters.
- I made an abortive attempt to excavate a burrow today and catch one.
Synonyms
dig, dig out, hollow out, scoop out, gouge, cut out, bore, burrow, tunnel, sink
quarry, mine
1. 1.1 Dig out material from (the ground)
  把（地面）挖开
  the ground was largely excavated by hand
  这场地大部分是用手挖的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, earlier this week Bloor put up temporary buildings on the site, started excavating the ground and moved building materials in.
  The Dip site will be excavated and contaminated material put in a lined cell, before a tennis court is built on top to permanently seal the site.
  Mr Newman reckons they will be able to learn more about the site from the data before the ground itself is finally excavated.
  That ground was largely excavated down to bed - rock to provide adequate support for the pillars that support this upper deck.
  With the help of the county team, the society has been excavating the grounds of the Grade II-listed building on the banks of the River Chelmer, once a major medieval religious centre.
  It is now hoped to use 100,000 tonnes of material, to be excavated during the construction of a new pier in Cromane, for building up embankments in the area.
  The ground excavated for the foundations was shoved into the Hudson river and used to create Battery Park, a green space facing Staten Island that was yesterday swamped beneath the shattered towers.
  The total quantity of ground to be excavated is 125,000 cubic yards.
  On Wednesday afternoon the Environment Service decided to stop excavating the sports ground embankment where the suspect soil is located until Dr Jenkins had an opportunity to inspect the site.
  Thirdly, we disagree with Cope that we have necessarily overestimated the volume of material that was excavated and, hence, the amount of flank uplift.
  They've excavated the grounds for the new hospital, which should be open in about three years.
  In all, about 28 cubic metres of material, weighing in excess of 40 tonnes, was excavated, all by hand.
  The poor quality ground is being excavated adjacent to Crossflatts station and is being replaced with material capable of supporting the road.
2. 1.2 Extract (material) from the ground by digging.
  从地上挖走（材料）
  a large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel
  为形成水渠，大量的砾石将被挖走。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then it's off to the shores where the material excavated from the construction of subways and skyscraper was piled along the edge of the island.
  They've also had problems with Intergen (the firm that wants to excavate underground gas caverns near Aldbrough).
  The company took a portable extraction plant down to the spit and excavated the ash from the lakebed for some months.
  To do this, a chalk mine was excavated to provide raw material for road foundations and plasterwork in the houses.
  Wheel loaders offer the best bet for contractors who need to excavate rock, minerals, and soil or to load and carry materials.
  Scarlet macaws, blue and gold macaws, and hosts of smaller birds perch together in their hundreds to excavate the best clay layer along a riverbank.
  I could say that the ground was soft enough to be excavated to an even greater depth using a spade only.
  James inefectually tried to excavate a droplet of water from his ear.
  Then, with the distal part of the tube anchored in a point at the base of the probe, it most likely moved most of the upper part of the tube by laterally excavating the sediments and backfilling the original tube behind.
  In the area near Shepherd's Island, extensive regions of the clay are excavated by fish in the late summer and fall, when the clay is rich with large Axarus larvae.
  These are people working with hoses and shorthandled shovels and picks, and then they excavate all of that burning material and they just keep moving around the perimeter.
  TV bosses, believed to be from the US arm of the station, have contacted the NUM seeking permission to excavate the grounds.
  The group met at the Avalon Inn and the first port of call was to Delaney's Upperhills to see how the raw material was excavated for Ormonde Brick.
  With a shovel, excavate soil to create a level planting base.
  Soil texture won't change unless you literally excavate your soil and replace it.
  They're used in tight spaces to excavate water, sewer, and gas lines; to install septic tanks; and to handle landscaping and loading tasks, among other uses.
2Remove earth carefully from (an area) in order to find buried remains.
在（某地区）发掘
the site was excavated in 1975
Example sentencesExamples
- All of these archaeological sites would need to be excavated before ground could be broken for that part of the M3.
- Mrs Rodgers, and her late husband Jimmy, lived in 41 Rodney Drive, diagonally across from the two houses where the police excavated ground floors and back gardens.
- Archaeologists set off for the place and explored and excavated the area to find out more about the gold and silver utensils.
- Lt Cmdr Chartier lead a team of five army, navy and air force forensic and archaeological personnel to the island on August 24 to excavate an area believed to be the sailor's resting place.
- Together with the workers, they used spiders and excavated the ammunition, moving it to a safe place.
- Years ago, they excavated this area at the base of the bridge and found evidence that human beings found shelter here 12,000 years ago.
- Pickton was arrested last year and his committal hearing resumes on June 30 after a recess, while police continue excavating the grounds of his 4,5-hectare farm.
- In this year an amateur archaeologist carefully excavated the original site of the house and located the chimney foundation (Robbins).
- A group of Japanese archeologists plans to excavate an archaeological site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism.
- The entire root systems for all 41 plants in the sealed room were carefully excavated on 25-26 Mar.2002.
- Under a vast clear plastic shelter, green lawns are being eaten away by an expanding quarry as archaeologist Klaus Dreger excavates the site for ancient ruins believed to have underlain the 13 th century church.
- Lynn will receive training so she can excavate sites, remove fossils and artifacts, and carefully map the finds.
- Geraldton City Council has discovered asbestos behind its Civic Centre and has begun excavating the area to remove the dangerous material.
- The team have also been excavating areas of the site that could not be saved from the sea and, in the course of their excavations, came across three burials lying next to the Priory church.
- Archaeologists excavating the site at Ilminster have identified the intricate, coloured stone floor as stemming from the Cirencester-based Corinian school.
- Now archaeologists excavating a development site at the Kilima Hotel, on Holgate Road, have discovered a human skeleton wearing hob-nail boots.
- Now, archaeologist A.K. Sharma is excavating the area that is believed to be the palace of Balaarjuna.
- Few plant remains have been recovered from any of the previously excavated sites, including the Millville type site east of Prairie du Chien along the Wisconsin River.
- In the last five years, the Richland Archaeological Project has excavated several sites in what is called the Richland complex.
- Any excavated objects must be recorded, documented in published materials, and moved to new locations if necessary.
1. 2.1 Reveal or extract (buried remains) while excavating an area.
  发掘（埋藏的遗址）
  clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site
  从墓地里发掘出了一些衣物和武器。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Archaeologists are excavating the remains of an important 17th century iron-smelting furnace that was almost lost forever.
  In 1784, he excavated a burial mound on his estate in Virginia in order to establish its age and cultural affinities.
  Nothing so grandiose has been confirmed by actual or excavated remains of religious architecture.
  The seven monolithic churches were excavated out of the ground and are surrounded by trenches and courtyards with graves and hermit cells cut into the inner cliff face.
  He also presents Meet The Ancestors in which excavated human remains are given a face and a life story through modern scientific techniques.
  Archaeologists first began excavating the remains of a 1,000-year-old castle located on the site in 1936.
  When earth-moving works were carried out on the slopes of Mont Boron to the north-west of the Grotte, a Lower Palaeolithic encampment was revealed and excavated.
  The great mud brick fortresses that preceded the mud brick churches and monasteries of the Christian era could not be moved; many were excavated and recorded in detail at this time.
  So that the Tower Street edge is well defined, for instance, the footings of the Victorian prison walls which survive below ground could be excavated and exposed.
  A small amount of animal remains was excavated.
  Ever since the 3000-seat amphitheatre was excavated to reveal room for 8000, archaeologists are continually surprised by what they find.
  Geoff Arnott, 26, and Adam Wright, 32, are seeking permission to excavate the remains of the 50-tonne plane which has been found on private land near Easingwold.
  A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience.
  In 1984 his bones were painstakingly excavated to reveal a species on the brink of becoming human.
  In six weeks, they excavated the remains of a home, which had been carbonized from the extreme heat of the volcanic eruption.
  Some years later he was able to locate and begin excavating the remains of Belize's most substantial pirate settlement.
  Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
  At Repton in Derbyshire, a few burials were excavated around the crypt of St Wystan's church.
  Since the eighteenth century, it has been possible not only to excavate the remarkable remains beneath the lava flows, but also to appropriate the amazing findings concerning Roman bourgeois life and decoration into modernity.
  Archaeologists excavated the remains of 23 men, women and infants from the tombs.
  Synonyms
  unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface, uncover, reveal
  disinter, exhume
  rare unbury

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin excavat- 'hollowed out', from the verb excavare, from ex- 'out' + cavare 'make or become hollow' (from cavus 'hollow').

cave from Middle English:
Latin cavus, ‘hollow’, is the origin of a number of English words, including cave, cavern (Late Middle English), cavity (mid 16th century), and excavate (late 16th century). Concave (Late Middle English) is from cavus preceded by con ‘with’, while convex (late 16th century) is from the Latin for ‘vaulted, arched’. In the days when more people knew Latin, there was a second English word spelled cave. This one, pronounced kah-vay, meant ‘beware!’, and was used from the mid 19th century by schoolchildren to warn their friends that a teacher was coming.

Definition of excavate in US English:

excavate

verbˈekskəˌvātˈɛkskəˌveɪt

[with object]

1Make (a hole or channel) by digging.
挖掘，挖（洞，渠）
the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench
干这事花费最少的方法就是挖一条长长的沟。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is common knowledge that when a hole is excavated, and then refilled with soil, settling can occur at the site.
- The massive females drag themselves well up beyond the high-tide mark and excavate a hole with their rear flippers.
- This had been built several years ago, when the drain tile went in, by excavating a hole and building the brick catch basin in the hole.
- I settle into a large sandy hole previously excavated by a turtle.
- There were no tools found in the churchyard so it is not yet clear how the hole was excavated and officers are not aware of any history of vandalism at St Martin's.
- A newly excavated shallow pond has created greater surface water for wetland wildlife.
- The bottom of the garden has been looking literally like a bombsite for some time, while we have been moving the patio and excavating a hole for the bog garden.
- It then backed up a bit and repeated the procedure once more, excavating another hole next to the first one, and then one more after that.
- Cane rats also are good diggers and excavate shallow burrows as shelters.
- The toad doesn't really need us to make him a home, both the spadefoot and Colorado river toad can excavate burrows almost three feet deep.
- They excavate burrows in soil or use natural rock crevices, or they may use old burrows.
- At least two of them have developed blades that allow you to use a tooth bucket for more than excavating a hole or digging a trench.
- Add to that a bus tour of the quarry where political prisoners excavated limestone and dug themselves a privy, and the beach where those who are now the country's leaders gathered kelp, and the value is beyond question.
- Each of six trenches being excavated simultaneously had its own sieve in operation.
- Once the street was excavated to the proper depth, a thick concrete base was poured.
- Apart from cleaning out existing sites, White Paws also excavated new holes wherever the cover was good and the ground soft.
- I made an abortive attempt to excavate a burrow today and catch one.
- Meanwhile, a tunnel is being excavated so that guests won't have to bother themselves crossing the main road to get to the golf course.
- Over a number of weeks a trench was excavated in the river bed on each side of the estuary.
- We excavate a hole, put our tent inside it, and start winter camping for a few days.
- In their natural state wombats excavate large burrows where they will generally spend the day, coming out in the evening to feed.
Synonyms
dig, dig out, hollow out, scoop out, gouge, cut out, bore, burrow, tunnel, sink
1. 1.1 Dig out material from (the ground)
  把（地面）挖开
  the ground was largely excavated by hand
  这场地大部分是用手挖的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thirdly, we disagree with Cope that we have necessarily overestimated the volume of material that was excavated and, hence, the amount of flank uplift.
  It is now hoped to use 100,000 tonnes of material, to be excavated during the construction of a new pier in Cromane, for building up embankments in the area.
  In all, about 28 cubic metres of material, weighing in excess of 40 tonnes, was excavated, all by hand.
  That ground was largely excavated down to bed - rock to provide adequate support for the pillars that support this upper deck.
  With the help of the county team, the society has been excavating the grounds of the Grade II-listed building on the banks of the River Chelmer, once a major medieval religious centre.
  On Wednesday afternoon the Environment Service decided to stop excavating the sports ground embankment where the suspect soil is located until Dr Jenkins had an opportunity to inspect the site.
  The Dip site will be excavated and contaminated material put in a lined cell, before a tennis court is built on top to permanently seal the site.
  Mr Newman reckons they will be able to learn more about the site from the data before the ground itself is finally excavated.
  They've excavated the grounds for the new hospital, which should be open in about three years.
  The total quantity of ground to be excavated is 125,000 cubic yards.
  The ground excavated for the foundations was shoved into the Hudson river and used to create Battery Park, a green space facing Staten Island that was yesterday swamped beneath the shattered towers.
  However, earlier this week Bloor put up temporary buildings on the site, started excavating the ground and moved building materials in.
  The poor quality ground is being excavated adjacent to Crossflatts station and is being replaced with material capable of supporting the road.
2. 1.2 Extract (material) from the ground by digging.
  从地上挖走（材料）
  a very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel
  为形成水渠，大量的砾石将被挖走。
  Example sentencesExamples
  TV bosses, believed to be from the US arm of the station, have contacted the NUM seeking permission to excavate the grounds.
  In the area near Shepherd's Island, extensive regions of the clay are excavated by fish in the late summer and fall, when the clay is rich with large Axarus larvae.
  I could say that the ground was soft enough to be excavated to an even greater depth using a spade only.
  To do this, a chalk mine was excavated to provide raw material for road foundations and plasterwork in the houses.
  Wheel loaders offer the best bet for contractors who need to excavate rock, minerals, and soil or to load and carry materials.
  Then it's off to the shores where the material excavated from the construction of subways and skyscraper was piled along the edge of the island.
  They're used in tight spaces to excavate water, sewer, and gas lines; to install septic tanks; and to handle landscaping and loading tasks, among other uses.
  The company took a portable extraction plant down to the spit and excavated the ash from the lakebed for some months.
  They've also had problems with Intergen (the firm that wants to excavate underground gas caverns near Aldbrough).
  Soil texture won't change unless you literally excavate your soil and replace it.
  Scarlet macaws, blue and gold macaws, and hosts of smaller birds perch together in their hundreds to excavate the best clay layer along a riverbank.
  The group met at the Avalon Inn and the first port of call was to Delaney's Upperhills to see how the raw material was excavated for Ormonde Brick.
  Then, with the distal part of the tube anchored in a point at the base of the probe, it most likely moved most of the upper part of the tube by laterally excavating the sediments and backfilling the original tube behind.
  These are people working with hoses and shorthandled shovels and picks, and then they excavate all of that burning material and they just keep moving around the perimeter.
  With a shovel, excavate soil to create a level planting base.
  James inefectually tried to excavate a droplet of water from his ear.
2Remove earth carefully and systematically from (an area) in order to find buried remains.
在（某地区）发掘
Example sentencesExamples
- Now, archaeologist A.K. Sharma is excavating the area that is believed to be the palace of Balaarjuna.
- Together with the workers, they used spiders and excavated the ammunition, moving it to a safe place.
- All of these archaeological sites would need to be excavated before ground could be broken for that part of the M3.
- Any excavated objects must be recorded, documented in published materials, and moved to new locations if necessary.
- Under a vast clear plastic shelter, green lawns are being eaten away by an expanding quarry as archaeologist Klaus Dreger excavates the site for ancient ruins believed to have underlain the 13 th century church.
- A group of Japanese archeologists plans to excavate an archaeological site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism.
- Pickton was arrested last year and his committal hearing resumes on June 30 after a recess, while police continue excavating the grounds of his 4,5-hectare farm.
- Archaeologists excavating the site at Ilminster have identified the intricate, coloured stone floor as stemming from the Cirencester-based Corinian school.
- Lt Cmdr Chartier lead a team of five army, navy and air force forensic and archaeological personnel to the island on August 24 to excavate an area believed to be the sailor's resting place.
- Now archaeologists excavating a development site at the Kilima Hotel, on Holgate Road, have discovered a human skeleton wearing hob-nail boots.
- The team have also been excavating areas of the site that could not be saved from the sea and, in the course of their excavations, came across three burials lying next to the Priory church.
- The entire root systems for all 41 plants in the sealed room were carefully excavated on 25-26 Mar.2002.
- Lynn will receive training so she can excavate sites, remove fossils and artifacts, and carefully map the finds.
- Geraldton City Council has discovered asbestos behind its Civic Centre and has begun excavating the area to remove the dangerous material.
- Years ago, they excavated this area at the base of the bridge and found evidence that human beings found shelter here 12,000 years ago.
- Few plant remains have been recovered from any of the previously excavated sites, including the Millville type site east of Prairie du Chien along the Wisconsin River.
- Mrs Rodgers, and her late husband Jimmy, lived in 41 Rodney Drive, diagonally across from the two houses where the police excavated ground floors and back gardens.
- Archaeologists set off for the place and explored and excavated the area to find out more about the gold and silver utensils.
- In the last five years, the Richland Archaeological Project has excavated several sites in what is called the Richland complex.
- In this year an amateur archaeologist carefully excavated the original site of the house and located the chimney foundation (Robbins).
1. 2.1 Reveal or extract (buried remains) by carefully removing earth.
  发掘（埋藏的遗址）
  clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site
  从墓地里发掘出了一些衣物和武器。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In 1984 his bones were painstakingly excavated to reveal a species on the brink of becoming human.
  At Repton in Derbyshire, a few burials were excavated around the crypt of St Wystan's church.
  Since the eighteenth century, it has been possible not only to excavate the remarkable remains beneath the lava flows, but also to appropriate the amazing findings concerning Roman bourgeois life and decoration into modernity.
  In six weeks, they excavated the remains of a home, which had been carbonized from the extreme heat of the volcanic eruption.
  The seven monolithic churches were excavated out of the ground and are surrounded by trenches and courtyards with graves and hermit cells cut into the inner cliff face.
  Geoff Arnott, 26, and Adam Wright, 32, are seeking permission to excavate the remains of the 50-tonne plane which has been found on private land near Easingwold.
  In 1784, he excavated a burial mound on his estate in Virginia in order to establish its age and cultural affinities.
  Archaeologists excavated the remains of 23 men, women and infants from the tombs.
  Some years later he was able to locate and begin excavating the remains of Belize's most substantial pirate settlement.
  Nothing so grandiose has been confirmed by actual or excavated remains of religious architecture.
  When earth-moving works were carried out on the slopes of Mont Boron to the north-west of the Grotte, a Lower Palaeolithic encampment was revealed and excavated.
  Archaeologists are excavating the remains of an important 17th century iron-smelting furnace that was almost lost forever.
  So that the Tower Street edge is well defined, for instance, the footings of the Victorian prison walls which survive below ground could be excavated and exposed.
  Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
  Ever since the 3000-seat amphitheatre was excavated to reveal room for 8000, archaeologists are continually surprised by what they find.
  A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience.
  The great mud brick fortresses that preceded the mud brick churches and monasteries of the Christian era could not be moved; many were excavated and recorded in detail at this time.
  He also presents Meet The Ancestors in which excavated human remains are given a face and a life story through modern scientific techniques.
  A small amount of animal remains was excavated.
  Archaeologists first began excavating the remains of a 1,000-year-old castle located on the site in 1936.
  Synonyms
  unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface, uncover, reveal

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin excavat- ‘hollowed out’, from the verb excavare, from ex- ‘out’ + cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’).

单词	excavate
释义	Definition of excavate in English: excavate verb ˈɛkskəveɪtˈɛkskəˌveɪt [with object] 1Make (a hole or channel) by digging. 挖掘，挖（洞，渠） the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench 干这事花费最少的方法就是挖一条长长的沟。 Example sentencesExamples Once the street was excavated to the proper depth, a thick concrete base was poured. Apart from cleaning out existing sites, White Paws also excavated new holes wherever the cover was good and the ground soft. Over a number of weeks a trench was excavated in the river bed on each side of the estuary. It is common knowledge that when a hole is excavated, and then refilled with soil, settling can occur at the site. The massive females drag themselves well up beyond the high-tide mark and excavate a hole with their rear flippers. Add to that a bus tour of the quarry where political prisoners excavated limestone and dug themselves a privy, and the beach where those who are now the country's leaders gathered kelp, and the value is beyond question. In their natural state wombats excavate large burrows where they will generally spend the day, coming out in the evening to feed. Meanwhile, a tunnel is being excavated so that guests won't have to bother themselves crossing the main road to get to the golf course. At least two of them have developed blades that allow you to use a tooth bucket for more than excavating a hole or digging a trench. It then backed up a bit and repeated the procedure once more, excavating another hole next to the first one, and then one more after that. The toad doesn't really need us to make him a home, both the spadefoot and Colorado river toad can excavate burrows almost three feet deep. There were no tools found in the churchyard so it is not yet clear how the hole was excavated and officers are not aware of any history of vandalism at St Martin's. I settle into a large sandy hole previously excavated by a turtle. We excavate a hole, put our tent inside it, and start winter camping for a few days. A newly excavated shallow pond has created greater surface water for wetland wildlife. The bottom of the garden has been looking literally like a bombsite for some time, while we have been moving the patio and excavating a hole for the bog garden. Each of six trenches being excavated simultaneously had its own sieve in operation. This had been built several years ago, when the drain tile went in, by excavating a hole and building the brick catch basin in the hole. They excavate burrows in soil or use natural rock crevices, or they may use old burrows. Cane rats also are good diggers and excavate shallow burrows as shelters. I made an abortive attempt to excavate a burrow today and catch one. Synonyms dig, dig out, hollow out, scoop out, gouge, cut out, bore, burrow, tunnel, sink quarry, mine 1.1 Dig out material from (the ground) 把（地面）挖开 the ground was largely excavated by hand 这场地大部分是用手挖的。 Example sentencesExamples However, earlier this week Bloor put up temporary buildings on the site, started excavating the ground and moved building materials in. The Dip site will be excavated and contaminated material put in a lined cell, before a tennis court is built on top to permanently seal the site. Mr Newman reckons they will be able to learn more about the site from the data before the ground itself is finally excavated. That ground was largely excavated down to bed - rock to provide adequate support for the pillars that support this upper deck. With the help of the county team, the society has been excavating the grounds of the Grade II-listed building on the banks of the River Chelmer, once a major medieval religious centre. It is now hoped to use 100,000 tonnes of material, to be excavated during the construction of a new pier in Cromane, for building up embankments in the area. The ground excavated for the foundations was shoved into the Hudson river and used to create Battery Park, a green space facing Staten Island that was yesterday swamped beneath the shattered towers. The total quantity of ground to be excavated is 125,000 cubic yards. On Wednesday afternoon the Environment Service decided to stop excavating the sports ground embankment where the suspect soil is located until Dr Jenkins had an opportunity to inspect the site. Thirdly, we disagree with Cope that we have necessarily overestimated the volume of material that was excavated and, hence, the amount of flank uplift. They've excavated the grounds for the new hospital, which should be open in about three years. In all, about 28 cubic metres of material, weighing in excess of 40 tonnes, was excavated, all by hand. The poor quality ground is being excavated adjacent to Crossflatts station and is being replaced with material capable of supporting the road. 1.2 Extract (material) from the ground by digging. 从地上挖走（材料） a large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel 为形成水渠，大量的砾石将被挖走。 Example sentencesExamples Then it's off to the shores where the material excavated from the construction of subways and skyscraper was piled along the edge of the island. They've also had problems with Intergen (the firm that wants to excavate underground gas caverns near Aldbrough). The company took a portable extraction plant down to the spit and excavated the ash from the lakebed for some months. To do this, a chalk mine was excavated to provide raw material for road foundations and plasterwork in the houses. Wheel loaders offer the best bet for contractors who need to excavate rock, minerals, and soil or to load and carry materials. Scarlet macaws, blue and gold macaws, and hosts of smaller birds perch together in their hundreds to excavate the best clay layer along a riverbank. I could say that the ground was soft enough to be excavated to an even greater depth using a spade only. James inefectually tried to excavate a droplet of water from his ear. Then, with the distal part of the tube anchored in a point at the base of the probe, it most likely moved most of the upper part of the tube by laterally excavating the sediments and backfilling the original tube behind. In the area near Shepherd's Island, extensive regions of the clay are excavated by fish in the late summer and fall, when the clay is rich with large Axarus larvae. These are people working with hoses and shorthandled shovels and picks, and then they excavate all of that burning material and they just keep moving around the perimeter. TV bosses, believed to be from the US arm of the station, have contacted the NUM seeking permission to excavate the grounds. The group met at the Avalon Inn and the first port of call was to Delaney's Upperhills to see how the raw material was excavated for Ormonde Brick. With a shovel, excavate soil to create a level planting base. Soil texture won't change unless you literally excavate your soil and replace it. They're used in tight spaces to excavate water, sewer, and gas lines; to install septic tanks; and to handle landscaping and loading tasks, among other uses. 2Remove earth carefully from (an area) in order to find buried remains. 在（某地区）发掘 the site was excavated in 1975 Example sentencesExamples All of these archaeological sites would need to be excavated before ground could be broken for that part of the M3. Mrs Rodgers, and her late husband Jimmy, lived in 41 Rodney Drive, diagonally across from the two houses where the police excavated ground floors and back gardens. Archaeologists set off for the place and explored and excavated the area to find out more about the gold and silver utensils. Lt Cmdr Chartier lead a team of five army, navy and air force forensic and archaeological personnel to the island on August 24 to excavate an area believed to be the sailor's resting place. Together with the workers, they used spiders and excavated the ammunition, moving it to a safe place. Years ago, they excavated this area at the base of the bridge and found evidence that human beings found shelter here 12,000 years ago. Pickton was arrested last year and his committal hearing resumes on June 30 after a recess, while police continue excavating the grounds of his 4,5-hectare farm. In this year an amateur archaeologist carefully excavated the original site of the house and located the chimney foundation (Robbins). A group of Japanese archeologists plans to excavate an archaeological site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism. The entire root systems for all 41 plants in the sealed room were carefully excavated on 25-26 Mar.2002. Under a vast clear plastic shelter, green lawns are being eaten away by an expanding quarry as archaeologist Klaus Dreger excavates the site for ancient ruins believed to have underlain the 13 th century church. Lynn will receive training so she can excavate sites, remove fossils and artifacts, and carefully map the finds. Geraldton City Council has discovered asbestos behind its Civic Centre and has begun excavating the area to remove the dangerous material. The team have also been excavating areas of the site that could not be saved from the sea and, in the course of their excavations, came across three burials lying next to the Priory church. Archaeologists excavating the site at Ilminster have identified the intricate, coloured stone floor as stemming from the Cirencester-based Corinian school. Now archaeologists excavating a development site at the Kilima Hotel, on Holgate Road, have discovered a human skeleton wearing hob-nail boots. Now, archaeologist A.K. Sharma is excavating the area that is believed to be the palace of Balaarjuna. Few plant remains have been recovered from any of the previously excavated sites, including the Millville type site east of Prairie du Chien along the Wisconsin River. In the last five years, the Richland Archaeological Project has excavated several sites in what is called the Richland complex. Any excavated objects must be recorded, documented in published materials, and moved to new locations if necessary. 2.1 Reveal or extract (buried remains) while excavating an area. 发掘（埋藏的遗址） clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site 从墓地里发掘出了一些衣物和武器。 Example sentencesExamples Archaeologists are excavating the remains of an important 17th century iron-smelting furnace that was almost lost forever. In 1784, he excavated a burial mound on his estate in Virginia in order to establish its age and cultural affinities. Nothing so grandiose has been confirmed by actual or excavated remains of religious architecture. The seven monolithic churches were excavated out of the ground and are surrounded by trenches and courtyards with graves and hermit cells cut into the inner cliff face. He also presents Meet The Ancestors in which excavated human remains are given a face and a life story through modern scientific techniques. Archaeologists first began excavating the remains of a 1,000-year-old castle located on the site in 1936. When earth-moving works were carried out on the slopes of Mont Boron to the north-west of the Grotte, a Lower Palaeolithic encampment was revealed and excavated. The great mud brick fortresses that preceded the mud brick churches and monasteries of the Christian era could not be moved; many were excavated and recorded in detail at this time. So that the Tower Street edge is well defined, for instance, the footings of the Victorian prison walls which survive below ground could be excavated and exposed. A small amount of animal remains was excavated. Ever since the 3000-seat amphitheatre was excavated to reveal room for 8000, archaeologists are continually surprised by what they find. Geoff Arnott, 26, and Adam Wright, 32, are seeking permission to excavate the remains of the 50-tonne plane which has been found on private land near Easingwold. A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience. In 1984 his bones were painstakingly excavated to reveal a species on the brink of becoming human. In six weeks, they excavated the remains of a home, which had been carbonized from the extreme heat of the volcanic eruption. Some years later he was able to locate and begin excavating the remains of Belize's most substantial pirate settlement. Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber. At Repton in Derbyshire, a few burials were excavated around the crypt of St Wystan's church. Since the eighteenth century, it has been possible not only to excavate the remarkable remains beneath the lava flows, but also to appropriate the amazing findings concerning Roman bourgeois life and decoration into modernity. Archaeologists excavated the remains of 23 men, women and infants from the tombs. Synonyms unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface, uncover, reveal disinter, exhume rare unbury Origin Late 16th century: from Latin excavat- 'hollowed out', from the verb excavare, from ex- 'out' + cavare 'make or become hollow' (from cavus 'hollow'). cave from Middle English: Latin cavus, ‘hollow’, is the origin of a number of English words, including cave, cavern (Late Middle English), cavity (mid 16th century), and excavate (late 16th century). Concave (Late Middle English) is from cavus preceded by con ‘with’, while convex (late 16th century) is from the Latin for ‘vaulted, arched’. In the days when more people knew Latin, there was a second English word spelled cave. This one, pronounced kah-vay, meant ‘beware!’, and was used from the mid 19th century by schoolchildren to warn their friends that a teacher was coming. Definition of excavate in US English: excavate verbˈekskəˌvātˈɛkskəˌveɪt [with object] 1Make (a hole or channel) by digging. 挖掘，挖（洞，渠） the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench 干这事花费最少的方法就是挖一条长长的沟。 Example sentencesExamples It is common knowledge that when a hole is excavated, and then refilled with soil, settling can occur at the site. The massive females drag themselves well up beyond the high-tide mark and excavate a hole with their rear flippers. This had been built several years ago, when the drain tile went in, by excavating a hole and building the brick catch basin in the hole. I settle into a large sandy hole previously excavated by a turtle. There were no tools found in the churchyard so it is not yet clear how the hole was excavated and officers are not aware of any history of vandalism at St Martin's. A newly excavated shallow pond has created greater surface water for wetland wildlife. The bottom of the garden has been looking literally like a bombsite for some time, while we have been moving the patio and excavating a hole for the bog garden. It then backed up a bit and repeated the procedure once more, excavating another hole next to the first one, and then one more after that. Cane rats also are good diggers and excavate shallow burrows as shelters. The toad doesn't really need us to make him a home, both the spadefoot and Colorado river toad can excavate burrows almost three feet deep. They excavate burrows in soil or use natural rock crevices, or they may use old burrows. At least two of them have developed blades that allow you to use a tooth bucket for more than excavating a hole or digging a trench. Add to that a bus tour of the quarry where political prisoners excavated limestone and dug themselves a privy, and the beach where those who are now the country's leaders gathered kelp, and the value is beyond question. Each of six trenches being excavated simultaneously had its own sieve in operation. Once the street was excavated to the proper depth, a thick concrete base was poured. Apart from cleaning out existing sites, White Paws also excavated new holes wherever the cover was good and the ground soft. I made an abortive attempt to excavate a burrow today and catch one. Meanwhile, a tunnel is being excavated so that guests won't have to bother themselves crossing the main road to get to the golf course. Over a number of weeks a trench was excavated in the river bed on each side of the estuary. We excavate a hole, put our tent inside it, and start winter camping for a few days. In their natural state wombats excavate large burrows where they will generally spend the day, coming out in the evening to feed. Synonyms dig, dig out, hollow out, scoop out, gouge, cut out, bore, burrow, tunnel, sink 1.1 Dig out material from (the ground) 把（地面）挖开 the ground was largely excavated by hand 这场地大部分是用手挖的。 Example sentencesExamples Thirdly, we disagree with Cope that we have necessarily overestimated the volume of material that was excavated and, hence, the amount of flank uplift. It is now hoped to use 100,000 tonnes of material, to be excavated during the construction of a new pier in Cromane, for building up embankments in the area. In all, about 28 cubic metres of material, weighing in excess of 40 tonnes, was excavated, all by hand. That ground was largely excavated down to bed - rock to provide adequate support for the pillars that support this upper deck. With the help of the county team, the society has been excavating the grounds of the Grade II-listed building on the banks of the River Chelmer, once a major medieval religious centre. On Wednesday afternoon the Environment Service decided to stop excavating the sports ground embankment where the suspect soil is located until Dr Jenkins had an opportunity to inspect the site. The Dip site will be excavated and contaminated material put in a lined cell, before a tennis court is built on top to permanently seal the site. Mr Newman reckons they will be able to learn more about the site from the data before the ground itself is finally excavated. They've excavated the grounds for the new hospital, which should be open in about three years. The total quantity of ground to be excavated is 125,000 cubic yards. The ground excavated for the foundations was shoved into the Hudson river and used to create Battery Park, a green space facing Staten Island that was yesterday swamped beneath the shattered towers. However, earlier this week Bloor put up temporary buildings on the site, started excavating the ground and moved building materials in. The poor quality ground is being excavated adjacent to Crossflatts station and is being replaced with material capable of supporting the road. 1.2 Extract (material) from the ground by digging. 从地上挖走（材料） a very large amount of gravel would be excavated to form the channel 为形成水渠，大量的砾石将被挖走。 Example sentencesExamples TV bosses, believed to be from the US arm of the station, have contacted the NUM seeking permission to excavate the grounds. In the area near Shepherd's Island, extensive regions of the clay are excavated by fish in the late summer and fall, when the clay is rich with large Axarus larvae. I could say that the ground was soft enough to be excavated to an even greater depth using a spade only. To do this, a chalk mine was excavated to provide raw material for road foundations and plasterwork in the houses. Wheel loaders offer the best bet for contractors who need to excavate rock, minerals, and soil or to load and carry materials. Then it's off to the shores where the material excavated from the construction of subways and skyscraper was piled along the edge of the island. They're used in tight spaces to excavate water, sewer, and gas lines; to install septic tanks; and to handle landscaping and loading tasks, among other uses. The company took a portable extraction plant down to the spit and excavated the ash from the lakebed for some months. They've also had problems with Intergen (the firm that wants to excavate underground gas caverns near Aldbrough). Soil texture won't change unless you literally excavate your soil and replace it. Scarlet macaws, blue and gold macaws, and hosts of smaller birds perch together in their hundreds to excavate the best clay layer along a riverbank. The group met at the Avalon Inn and the first port of call was to Delaney's Upperhills to see how the raw material was excavated for Ormonde Brick. Then, with the distal part of the tube anchored in a point at the base of the probe, it most likely moved most of the upper part of the tube by laterally excavating the sediments and backfilling the original tube behind. These are people working with hoses and shorthandled shovels and picks, and then they excavate all of that burning material and they just keep moving around the perimeter. With a shovel, excavate soil to create a level planting base. James inefectually tried to excavate a droplet of water from his ear. 2Remove earth carefully and systematically from (an area) in order to find buried remains. 在（某地区）发掘 Example sentencesExamples Now, archaeologist A.K. Sharma is excavating the area that is believed to be the palace of Balaarjuna. Together with the workers, they used spiders and excavated the ammunition, moving it to a safe place. All of these archaeological sites would need to be excavated before ground could be broken for that part of the M3. Any excavated objects must be recorded, documented in published materials, and moved to new locations if necessary. Under a vast clear plastic shelter, green lawns are being eaten away by an expanding quarry as archaeologist Klaus Dreger excavates the site for ancient ruins believed to have underlain the 13 th century church. A group of Japanese archeologists plans to excavate an archaeological site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism. Pickton was arrested last year and his committal hearing resumes on June 30 after a recess, while police continue excavating the grounds of his 4,5-hectare farm. Archaeologists excavating the site at Ilminster have identified the intricate, coloured stone floor as stemming from the Cirencester-based Corinian school. Lt Cmdr Chartier lead a team of five army, navy and air force forensic and archaeological personnel to the island on August 24 to excavate an area believed to be the sailor's resting place. Now archaeologists excavating a development site at the Kilima Hotel, on Holgate Road, have discovered a human skeleton wearing hob-nail boots. The team have also been excavating areas of the site that could not be saved from the sea and, in the course of their excavations, came across three burials lying next to the Priory church. The entire root systems for all 41 plants in the sealed room were carefully excavated on 25-26 Mar.2002. Lynn will receive training so she can excavate sites, remove fossils and artifacts, and carefully map the finds. Geraldton City Council has discovered asbestos behind its Civic Centre and has begun excavating the area to remove the dangerous material. Years ago, they excavated this area at the base of the bridge and found evidence that human beings found shelter here 12,000 years ago. Few plant remains have been recovered from any of the previously excavated sites, including the Millville type site east of Prairie du Chien along the Wisconsin River. Mrs Rodgers, and her late husband Jimmy, lived in 41 Rodney Drive, diagonally across from the two houses where the police excavated ground floors and back gardens. Archaeologists set off for the place and explored and excavated the area to find out more about the gold and silver utensils. In the last five years, the Richland Archaeological Project has excavated several sites in what is called the Richland complex. In this year an amateur archaeologist carefully excavated the original site of the house and located the chimney foundation (Robbins). 2.1 Reveal or extract (buried remains) by carefully removing earth. 发掘（埋藏的遗址） clothing and weapons were excavated from the burial site 从墓地里发掘出了一些衣物和武器。 Example sentencesExamples In 1984 his bones were painstakingly excavated to reveal a species on the brink of becoming human. At Repton in Derbyshire, a few burials were excavated around the crypt of St Wystan's church. Since the eighteenth century, it has been possible not only to excavate the remarkable remains beneath the lava flows, but also to appropriate the amazing findings concerning Roman bourgeois life and decoration into modernity. In six weeks, they excavated the remains of a home, which had been carbonized from the extreme heat of the volcanic eruption. The seven monolithic churches were excavated out of the ground and are surrounded by trenches and courtyards with graves and hermit cells cut into the inner cliff face. Geoff Arnott, 26, and Adam Wright, 32, are seeking permission to excavate the remains of the 50-tonne plane which has been found on private land near Easingwold. In 1784, he excavated a burial mound on his estate in Virginia in order to establish its age and cultural affinities. Archaeologists excavated the remains of 23 men, women and infants from the tombs. Some years later he was able to locate and begin excavating the remains of Belize's most substantial pirate settlement. Nothing so grandiose has been confirmed by actual or excavated remains of religious architecture. When earth-moving works were carried out on the slopes of Mont Boron to the north-west of the Grotte, a Lower Palaeolithic encampment was revealed and excavated. Archaeologists are excavating the remains of an important 17th century iron-smelting furnace that was almost lost forever. So that the Tower Street edge is well defined, for instance, the footings of the Victorian prison walls which survive below ground could be excavated and exposed. Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber. Ever since the 3000-seat amphitheatre was excavated to reveal room for 8000, archaeologists are continually surprised by what they find. A team from the Oxford Archaeological Unit was engaged to excavate and reveal the archaeology for a public audience. The great mud brick fortresses that preceded the mud brick churches and monasteries of the Christian era could not be moved; many were excavated and recorded in detail at this time. He also presents Meet The Ancestors in which excavated human remains are given a face and a life story through modern scientific techniques. A small amount of animal remains was excavated. Archaeologists first began excavating the remains of a 1,000-year-old castle located on the site in 1936. Synonyms unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface, uncover, reveal Origin Late 16th century: from Latin excavat- ‘hollowed out’, from the verb excavare, from ex- ‘out’ + cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’).
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